Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Sourcescrub's globally-distributed Client Engineering team as an experienced Team Lead. As a player-coach, you will build scalable, high-performance systems for key web products and lead a team of engineers. Your work will directly impact company revenue by supporting high-paying clients. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, own backend development, and learn new technologies in this highly distributed environment. This full-time, contract role, based in Mexico, reports to the Director of Client Engineering. You will contribute to product and company success by solving complex challenges.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3+ years of experience leading a team of engineers
• 5+ years of experience working with .NET technologies
• Strong proficiency in C#
• Strong proficiency in Angular
• 3+ years of experience with SQL
• Expert-level knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Experience with coding standards, architecture, and continuous integration practices
• Experience with learning new technologies and techniques
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain efficient, reusable, and scalable code for backend systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Drive the scaling of applications and performance tuning of back-end services
• Write code as part of a collaborative team, building backend features that are essential to our client's daily operations
• Implement solutions with autonomy, collaborating with engineering leads to architect solutions
• Define and scope solutions that not only address technical requirements but also align with the company’s business objectives
• Develop and maintain documentation for new and existing systems, ensuring that all business logic is well documented
• Contribute to a collaborative and supportive team environment, encouraging best practices and continuous learning
• Overseeing the work of a group of both frontend and backend engineers including performance management, code reviews and delegating where needed
• Leading your scrum team and participating in ceremonies, sprint planning and all parts of the agile process
• Working cross-functionally to collaborate with other engineering and product teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience with search technologies, particularly ElasticSearch
• 1 year of experience with TensorFlow